Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations … quickly after repeated interventions. Economic incentives produced larger and persistent effects, which induced habit … formation after the final interventions. While each policy produces substantial welfare gains, economic incentives provide …

incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more … worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional …%: that is, total team productivity is enhanced by 1% purely due to the framing manipulation. Importantly, we find that …

present results from a randomized experiment across a representative sample of 350 schools in Tanzania that studied the impact … effects. Our results suggest that accounting for complementarities between inputs and incentives could substantially improve …

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …

Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created … field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students …

Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …

interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … findings emerge. First, there are hidden benefits of conditional incentives that would have gone undetected had we maintained a …

test of the theory implements a laboratory experiment, where important features of the theory can be exogenously imposed …. We complement our lab experiment with a field experiment, where we rely on biological models complemented by economic …

parameters, which we estimate using a novel within-subject information disclosure experiment. In the context of the model, the …Imperfect information and inattention to energy costs are important potential justifications for energy efficiency …